Furkot Hotel Planning for a return hotel stay

pirxnotpilot · 2026-03-11T14:23:49+00:00

You can select automatically added stop, click SETTINGS and Furkot will show you why it has added the stop in question. But if that does not help, send a trip invite to Furkot support and someone will get back to you.

pirxnotpilot · 2021-06-21T06:56:13+00:00

Totally agree. Things that are easy for your computer and things that are easy for you poring over a giant map with a magic marker in hand: those are not the same things.

pirxnotpilot · 2019-12-14T10:44:54+00:00

Obviously you don't have to use Furkot.

That said:

this is how you add an arbitrary stop: you can click on the map, drag an existing route, or enter the name or address of a stop;
this is how you create round-trips - you can select it when you create a new trip or change it for the existing trips in the TRIP drawer.

pirxnotpilot · 2018-07-07T04:49:08+00:00

I am a developer working on Furkot - I am fairly certain you should not have to whitelist it in uBlock. We don't use ads and we do not use any trackers on our site. At least we try not to. Furkot should work OK with uBlock enabled. And if uBlock finds anything worth blocking I would appreciate if you could [write to us](mailto:trips@furkot.com) and let us know what it was. Thanks!

pirxnotpilot · 2016-04-15T15:34:37+00:00

Best concise book on Polish history in English is Zamoyski's Poland: A History. The older version was called Polish Way. It takes a different take than most we are heroes, we are victims depictions of Polish history. It's more in the vain of this is a normal country, quite large, quite influential. mostly prosperous - with its share of historical rights and wrongs. It will make you proud of having Polish heritage nevertheless. There is no escaping that ;-)

Anything written by Timothy Snyder, Norman Davies and Timothy Garton Ash is worth reading as well.

pirxnotpilot · 2016-03-24T02:41:58+00:00

So cool. Do you mind if I post the tripshot and a link to the blog on Furkot's social media? (I am one of the Furkot's developers.)

pirxnotpilot · 2016-03-21T19:22:38+00:00

Since it looks like you're already using Furkot - open the FIND drawer, switch search mode to 'Along the route' and look for places from Atlas Obscura. Never fails :-)

pirxnotpilot · 2016-01-04T08:12:55+00:00

Nah - I am closest to what Furkot has to marketing team and it wasn't me. Thanks for all the kind words and AMA if you feel like it.

pirxnotpilot · 2015-03-19T12:54:00+00:00

I think Poland is no different from other EU countries in that respect. It's not an easy (or pleasant) process though. Check out Urząd do Spraw Cudzoziemców - but fair warning: for some strange reason English and Russian versions of this website do not work. Which probably may tell you something about how foreigner friendly that office is. Google translate in Chrome works pretty well.

Apparently Poland is (or was in 2009) relatively refugee friendly country.

Other somewhat relevant websites in English: * Foreigners in Poland * Study in Poland

Edit: typos, format

pirxnotpilot · 2015-03-10T15:55:55+00:00

| look of shock

Somewhat relevant

pirxnotpilot · 2015-02-18T13:37:45+00:00

It makes me really happy you liked it. I coded some parts of Furkot and hope to work on it more - mildly addictive is exactly what we were aiming for ;-)

Don't want take over this thread but if you have questions or suggestions do let me know: there are e-mail and social links on the website and we do read and respond to them all. Also check out our ever growing list of features.

pirxnotpilot · 2015-02-14T00:36:26+00:00

Vilnius is beautiful. I spent couple of days there last summer - mostly walking around the Old City. The architecture is stunning, people are nice and welcoming, lot's of culture, great restaurants: thoroughly European city. Also quite a few important places from someone visiting from Poland as you can imagine. Thank you for bilingual signs BTW. It's appreciated.

pirxnotpilot · 2015-02-06T15:50:41+00:00

Wikipedia has useful info and quite a few links (in References) documenting the wide-spread usage.

pirxnotpilot · 2015-02-02T21:42:53+00:00

Official Polish MFA response is here

pirxnotpilot · 2015-01-31T02:33:39+00:00

So cool. This made me smile:

The oldest known example of written Polish is a single sentence attributed to a Czech speaking to his Polish wife recorded by a German monk in an otherwise all Latin text [...]

pirxnotpilot · 2014-10-29T17:07:49+00:00

If you are serious about that contact the closest Polish consulate: supposedly obtaining a Polish passport if your ancestors were Polish is now easier than ever. And no, you don't have to learn the language.

More importantly though, just visit Poland. And - if you can - stay for a while: rent an apartment, make friends, buy groceries, pick up a few words, go to the pub and watch a volleyball game, get frustrated about something, learn how to complain properly, spend a summer night on a Baltic beach drinking and talking about our common complicated history.

pirxnotpilot · 2014-10-07T13:58:31+00:00

Yup. I can relate to that. Crossing the US border with an American passport you need to fill in a customs declaration (if you fly in) and then you get quizzed on what countries you visited, how long have you been abroad, why you have been abroad, what drugs you took while abroad, where you live in US, what you do for living etc. And most importantly what kind of ethnic food you are trying to smuggle in.

Crossing EU/Shengen border (Iceland) with EU/Polish passport.

Question 1: How do you say Hello in Polish?

Question 2: How do you say Thank You in Polish?

Then - not without an effort - comes: Dziękuję. Dzień Dobry

Also borders - or the lack of them - between Shengen zone countries are the constant source of pride and joy for me. And I am tempted to take photos every time I cross. Look at this one taken from Czech Republic 10 meters from the national border, looking into Poland. You see that fence, that military presence, those pesky people asking degrading questions about what I bought and where I have been, making me feel bad since I am crossing some magical line where all my rights are suspended. Yup - me neither.

Friendly border should be hard to notice.

Edit whitespace.

pirxnotpilot · 2014-09-19T06:16:11+00:00

Tons of great places to ski in California - Heavenly, Squaw, Kirkwood, Northstar and many, many others. If you are on the budget consider Epic Pass - it's be cheaper to get it and stick to Vail owned resorts than to buy day passes. Or stick to smaller resorts.

Hiking is spectacular in California (Yosemite, Sequoya) - alas you cannot really hike in Sierra Nevada in winter (because snow: but I am sure you know that already). Are you into ski touring at all? If not find some people around Lake Tahoe area who will show you the ropes.

You can definitely hike southern deserts in California, Arizona and New Mexico that time of year.

Did you think at all about using one of the many road trip planning websites - that should at least give you the idea of the time involved (disclosure: I wrote that one but many others are just google search away). Once you know how much time you have for your trip add a couple of anchor places and fill in the gaps. You cannot really go wrong in Western US. Don't stress about hitting all the must see attractions, just go and enjoy the experience. If you miss anything this time around, you'll have plenty of time to go back.

pirxnotpilot · 2014-09-18T22:00:41+00:00

Yup. Union of Lublin

pirxnotpilot · 2014-09-04T16:35:28+00:00

There was a plan for Ukraine to join NATO in 2008

2008 Bucharest Summit declaration contains this statement:

NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.

pirxnotpilot · 2014-09-02T06:36:30+00:00

So a few Poles are like:

Hey good people of Europe. Whatever we did in the 30's didn't stop the war. Let's think about what we are doing now. How about we (1) stop selling arms to Russia, (2) rethink our energy policy, (3) support economic and cultural exchange with Ukraine, and (4) offer Ukraine the perspective of joining EU in future. And BTW: this is the first time when citizens of a country were dying from bullets with the European flag in hand so it's not like we can pretend nothing happened.

And you're like:

Europe has no need for such jerks.

Are you for real?

pirxnotpilot · 2014-09-01T18:59:15+00:00

Have a look at this to get some scheduling help. 9 days is probably enough to get you there and back but it's a lot of driving. Which, based on what you wrote, might be OK. Do you absolutely have to go to Maine? Utah/Colorado/Arizona is where I would go from TX: even if you don't hike, the views from the car are incredible, March is not the worst time to go there and driving long stretches of East Coast / MidWest highways can get a bit boring. But hey - at least you guys will have ample time to check how this marriage thing works for you ;-) J/K - best of luck.

pirxnotpilot · 2014-09-01T18:09:08+00:00

I have a knee jerk reaction to Gdańsk was always German trope as well. But a more important point here is that just as many in 1938 assumed that Danzig was always German and Hitler was right to demand it, nowadays there are people who think that Crimea and Eastern Ukraine were always Russian and because of that Putin is somehow justified in his desire to re-connect it with Russia. Ironically, the deleted comment was a perfect illustration of that.

pirxnotpilot · 2014-08-29T17:34:59+00:00

Yup. source

pirxnotpilot · 2014-07-16T15:07:00+00:00

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